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...Keith's occasional attempts at lead vocals on Stones albums, you'll be astonished at how adept his singing has become. His voice still has the narrow timbre of old, and his rasp is raspier than ever, but his vocal gymnastics display an unexpected spryness. On one song, the Stax-like "Make No Mistake," he even croons and whispers like Al Green (though without Green's range), curling his voice around each syllable with palpable relish. Keith also proves himself a reasonable blues shouter, in the mold of--who else?--Mick Jagger...
...Happy!!, Elvis Costello pays homage to his American musical influences--soul, blues, much Motown and Stax, as well as reggae. Costello, in Lou Reed's phrase, "wants to be Black." One of the two covers is an old Sam and Dave song, the rousing, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down." Charmingly, it comes out sounding like Graham Parker and the Rumour. Influences being what they are, maybe it was supposed...
Larry Shaw decided, after his wife died in 1969, that Chicago was no place for a single parent to raise three children. In particular, he says, "I was worried about the schools and the gangs." He moved to his native Memphis to join Stax Record Co.'s promotion department. He bought a five-bedroom, Tudor-style house in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, and hired a housekeeper. When Stax went bankrupt, Shaw started his own consulting agency, which helps a dozen firms to sell to black consumers. He earns about $40,000 a year...
...little blue man is no fool. Gospel-style Singer June Hunt, 29, whose first single this is, is the stepdaughter and one of the heirs of the late billionaire H.L. Hunt. Last year she signed a five-year contract with the financially troubled Stax Records of Memphis and made her recording debut just before Christmas with rusty-oldie Little Blue Man. An LP will be released this spring. In the past, June has promoted some of her stepfather's right-wing causes, such as the Youth Freedom Speakers, even as she built her career, singing and playing the guitar...
...concerned that the record world seemed to be "drinking that fatal glass of beer" that many movie studios had taken-a switch in emphasis from artistic control to mere entrepreneurism. Like other large record companies, Columbia under Davis had moved more and more into the distributorship of smaller labels (Stax, Philadelphia International, Monument), more and more into high bidding for established stars (Neil Diamond and Laura Nyro for multimillion dollar deals) and less into its own experimentation and development of talent...